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Re: Using ssh to get a remote xterm started..


Hi Andrew...

You may have a problem with ssh hanging (as I did). Try my workaround patch 
(previous mail) and see if that helps. Please post here whether the patch 
helps or not.

Thanks,

...Karl

>From: Andrew Markebo <flognat@flognat.myip.org>
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Using ssh to get a remote xterm started..
>Date: 27 May 2001 19:40:00 +0200
>
>I am trying to fire up a remote xterm automagically through cygwin's
>ssh 2.9p1-2 (latest and greatest dll and so on.. What happens is:
>
>I do (master is my linux machine.:
>
>ssh -2 -v -X master xterm
>
>The xterm pops up in my xserver on the `cygwin' machine. The last
>lines of the ssh log is:
>
>[...]
>debug1: client_init id 0 arg 0
>debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
>debug1: Sending command: xterm
>debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 16384
>debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 2 win 4096 max 2048
>debug1: client_request_x11: request from 127.0.0.1 1189
>debug1: fd 7 setting O_NONBLOCK
>debug1: fd 7 IS O_NONBLOCK
>debug1: channel 1: new [x11]
>debug1: confirm x11
>
>But if I try:
>
>ssh -2 -v -X master xterm &
>ssh -2 -v -X -n master (with and without &)
>ssh -2 -v -X -f master (with and without &)
>
>I get no xterm, and the log says:
>[...]
>debug1: client_init id 0 arg 0
>debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
>debug1: Sending command: xterm
>debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 16384
>[silence]
>
>What have I missed??
>
>         /Andy
>
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